Women in Australias Working History

Unsung Heroes

Women are the unsung heroes of Australian working life. The
Australian Workers Heritage Centre is proud to honour the
work of women in the first stage of its Women in Australias
Working History Project - the exhibition, A Lot
on her Hands.

Louisa Lawson was a writer, publisher, fighter for
womens rights and a wife and mother. You can see
the printing artifacts and mastheads from her days working
on the journals, The Republican and The Dawn. She was
also a poet in her own right.

There are many other women - both ordinary and extraordinary-
who tell their own stories of work, paid and unpaid 
women like Oodgeroo (poet and campaigner) Joan Kirner (politician)
and Pat Marks (entomologist):

This exhibition is a rich and rewarding illumination of an
amazing cross section of Australian women and their labours,
both paid and unpaid over the past 200 or so years. There
have been many challenges and important milestones
for Australian women along the way.